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Tea party merely supports Constitution

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Sunday March 23, 2014 11:37 AM

What does it mean to be a member of a political party in 2014? Republican, Democrat.
Conservative, liberal. Far right, left wing and progressive.

One thing is sure: Many of them are against the tea party, which isn’t a political party at all.
It is a lot of loose-knit organizations across the country made up of people who have a common
understanding of American history and the importance of our Constitution. The groups are making an
effort to restore our country to its founding: a federalist, constitutional republic, with
democratically elected representatives.

One might ask then, why are so many members of both major parties opposed to people who align
themselves with the tea party? Don’t they believe in and support the Constitution, too? Why then
did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who recently attended the annual Conservative
Political Action Conference held in National Harbor, Md., accuse the president of flouting the
Constitution on one hand, then later tell
The New York Times, when referring to tea party candidates, “I think we are going to crush
them everywhere. I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the
country?"

So whom and what is McConnell for? Or is he, like others in Washington, not for anything but
himself and his established lavish way of life, paid for by you and me, the taxpayers?